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Understanding South African Political Violence a New Problematic? UNRISD UNITED NATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Understanding South African Political Violence A New Problematic? André du Toit UNRISD Discussion Paper 43 April 1993 UNRISD Discussion Papers are preliminary documents circulated in a limited number of copies to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how devel- opment policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect dif- ferent social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in develop- ing countries. Current research themes include: Crisis, Adjustment and Social Change; Socio-Economic and Political Consequences of the International Trade in Illicit Drugs; Environment, Sus- tainable Development and Social Change; Integrating Gender into Development Policy; Participation and Changes in Property Relations in Communist and Post-Communist So- cieties; and Political Violence and Social Movements. 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ISSN 1012-6511 Contents Preface 4 Introduction 5 Some conceptual preliminaries 5 The new context of South African violence 6 Historical Context and Legacy 12 The period of frontier violence in a pre-modern context 14 Political violence and non-violence in the context of modern state formation 20 Political violence in the context of apartheid and resistance to apartheid 25 Revisiting the new problematic of understanding political violence in post-apartheid South Africa: An agenda for research 28 Bibliography 32 Understanding South African Political Violence: A New Problematic? André du Toit • UNRISD Discussion Paper 43 Preface Political violence has deep historical roots in South Africa. But if violence has figured prominently, it usually has not proved too difficult to make sense of it: the violence of conquest, the violence of frontier wars, the violence of apartheid and of the struggle against apartheid, the criminal violence of gangs and the ritualized violence of faction fights. Understanding such types of violence has consisted in relating the pathologies and instrumentalities of violence in appropriate ways to these primary social processes and political phenomena. The extent and intensity of current political violence is, however, more difficult to comprehend. This essay, by André du Toit, is in part an attempt to provide an interpretation of the “new political violence”. At one level, the current process of transition has resulted in a shift from the politics of violence to the politics of negotiation. At another level, however, the process has been marked by increasing political violence in the black townships. The incidence of interracial violence has been more limited. The current patterns of violence need to be understood in part in the context of local struggles that are independent of the “master narrative” of violence. They are also not unrelated to the processes of modernization generated by apartheid and to the rapidly diminishing expectations from the negotiations currently underway. The paper places political violence in the context of attempts and steps toward modernization that date back to the seventeenth century. The earlier forms of violence involved warfare between isolated communities, the expansion of the frontier, the formation of the modern state and the suppression of resistance to colonial rule by the Boers and the Zulus. The key feature of African resistance to oppression in the twentieth century was, however, its non-violent character. The resistance was based on demands for full incorporation in the modern state with civil and political rights of citizenship. Even the enforced recourse to violence after the imposition of apartheid did not represent a rejection of the values and ideals of the modern political state and society. This study has been prepared within the framework of the UNRISD research programme on political violence and social movements, directed by David Apter. The author, André du Toit, is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. His publications include Afrikaner Political Thought, 1780-1850 and Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa (with Chabani Manganyi). He is publisher and joint editor of the journal Die Suid-Afrikaan and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of IDASA (Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa). Dharam Ghai, Director April 1993 4 Understanding South African Political Violence: A New Problematic? André du Toit • UNRISD Discussion Paper 43 Introduction Political violence has in recent years become a dominant and pervasive feature of South African politics and society. In various ways this has been a complex and paradoxical development: the violence has been central to the national scene, with open and dramatic conflicts leaving large numbers killed and maimed (e.g. in populist insurrections against the apartheid state, or conflicts between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha), but it has also proliferated in marginal contexts, largely unnoticed by anyone except those directly concerned (e.g. in local feuds or “faction fights”); surprisingly, the violence has been strikingly absent in some contexts where it was most feared and predicted (e.g. by blacks against whites), while it has erupted elsewhere in unexpected contexts and forms (e.g. the revival and use of traditional “cultural weapons”); often the very agents of this new violence have been unclear and its purposes hotly contested (cf. the allegations about the presence of a “third force”). Understanding South African political violence has become both an urgent challenge and a special problem. This paper will make a number of different moves aimed at opening up the problem of understanding political violence in South Africa in contemporary, historical and discursive perspectives. First we will need to make some preliminary conceptual clarifications as to the specific sense of violence at stake, as well as to just what is involved in the problem of “understanding” this violence. Next we will briefly survey the most recent period so as to give some substantiation to the suggestion that in an important sense we are currently confronted with a new and more elusive problem in understanding South African political violence, as well as to gain some idea of how and when this new problematic has come about. The upshot of these introductory sections will be that the task of understanding current and past political violence is an eminently historical project, and the major part of the paper will be concerned with an attempt to provide an analytical framework for this purpose. It will be argued that an understanding of political violence in South Africa needs to be located with respect to four different historical contexts: i) the pre-modern context of frontier conflict; ii) the modernizing period of centralized state-formation; iii) the post-1948 period of apartheid and resistance to apartheid; and iv) the current transitional period on the verge of a post-apartheid South Africa. With reference to this periodization of the history of political violence in South Africa, we will trace the emergence of a “master-narrative” structuring conventional understandings of political violence in relation to the general project of modernization.It will be argued that it is in so far as the current proliferation and escalation of political violence confounds the expectations embedded in the earlier “master-narrative” that we are confronted with a new and urgent problem in understanding political violence in South Africa. Critical reflection and analysis on this turn of events should help to clear
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